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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:24:18 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Cleaning /var/db/portsnap/files/, how?
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On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:01:24 +0200, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On several FreeBSD boxes "performing portsnap fetch" updating the ports 
> on a regular basis, folder /var/db/portsnap/files/ gets filled over 
> time. 

Sorry for not answering your question, but allow me a little
sidenote regarding the proper terminology.

FreeBSD, as every UNIX OS, has *directories*, not "folders".
You do also use the name "files", not "sheets of paper",
don't you? :-)



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Polytropon
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